--- title: "Attock – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Attock, Pakistan: Attock is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the national capital Islamabad. Nearby: Ghazi-Barotha Hydropower Project. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/attock" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/attock.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Attock_Qila.jpg/3840px-Attock_Qila.jpg" --- City in Punjab, Pakistan # Attock Attock is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the national capital Islamabad. ![Attock](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Attock_Qila.jpg/3840px-Attock_Qila.jpg) Attock · Wikimedia Commons The place Attock is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the national capital Islamabad. The headquarters of the Attock District, it is the 36th largest city in the Punjab and the 61st largest city in the country, by population. The city was founded in 1908 several miles southeast of the historical city of Attock Khurd, which had been established by the Mughal emperor Akbar in the 16th century, and was initially named in honour of Sir Colin Campbell. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attock), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Attock One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Ghazi-Barotha Hydropower Project Ghazi-Barotha Hydropower Project is a 1,450 MW run-of-the-river hydropower project on the Indus River in Pakistan. It is located about 10 km west of Attock in the Punjab province. 10 km · dam in Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazi-Barotha_Hydropower_Project) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. See ## What Wikivoyage says to see Just a few km outside of Attock city lies the small community of Attock Khurd (Little Attock). Sometimes called "the Gateway to Central Asia", this small town boasts the remains of a 16th-century fort, built by Akhbar the Great to protect passage of the Indus. 1. Attock Fort Built during the reign of Akbar the Great from 1581 to 1583 to protect the passage of the River Indus. From [Wikivoyage: Attock](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Attock), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## Things to do There is a lot to do in Attock. Some parks in Attock are: Jinah Park Asfanyar Railway Park Wah Garden From [Wikivoyage: Attock](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Attock), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat It's traditional to eat peanuts in this district. From [Wikivoyage: Attock](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Attock), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Go there ## Getting to Attock **Airports:** Islamabad (ISB), 49 km · Bacha Khan (PEW), 83 km · Srinagar (SXR), 224 km\ **Stations:** Attock City Junction railway station, 1.6 km · Kanjur railway station, 5.4 km · Sanjwal Cantonment railway station, 6.6 km · Sanjwal railway station, 8.4 km\ - Peshawar → Attock 77 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · ₨710–950 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/peshawar-to-attock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Peshawar&to=Attock) - Sialkot → Attock 247 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · ₨2,310–3,070 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/sialkot-to-attock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Sialkot&to=Attock) - Faisalabad → Attock 270 km · quickest by road, 5h 32m · ₨2,770–3,700 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/faisalabad-to-attock) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Faisalabad&to=Attock) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Attock) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Attock Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Attock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Karimabad (Hunza)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hunza) PK 9 ways of moving, 35 sources 354 km 2. [Leh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leh) IN 8 ways of moving, 25 sources 483 km 3. [Tirthan Valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tirthan-valley) IN 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 529 km 4. [Kaza](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kaza) IN 7 ways of moving, 20 sources 559 km 5. [Chitkul](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chitkul) IN 7 ways of moving, 20 sources 629 km If you know how people move in Attock – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cattock&title=Attock&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fattock), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Attock Attock is 36 km from [Wah Cantt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wah-cantt), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Haji Shah](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/haji-shah) town in Pakistan 3.6 km - [Boota](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boota) village in Punjab, Pakistan 8.9 km - [Bathou](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bathou) village in Punjab, Pakistan 8.9 km [The place page for Attock](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/attock) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Pakistan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-PK) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/attock, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt